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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ... before his sickness came on, or it might be the fact of his sickness, which was now prompting him to. ask to be admitted to Penance; but in either case he would, in view of his malady, be anxious to be absolved speedily, and so be allowed to participate in the Mysteries of the Altar. I have shown that Origen and S. Chrysostom understood the clause to refer to the discipline of Penance and the ministration of Absolution1, and I am not aware of any other interpretation having been given to it by any early Christian writer. No one before the time of Charles the Great suggests, so far as my knowledge goes, that S. James is alluding to anything but the remission which is imparted by the exercise of the power of the keys. But by the end of the eighth century, owing to the changes which had taken place in the administration of the discipline of Penance2, the conditional clause in the Jacobean passage would not produce by any means 1 See above, on pp. 42-7. a Owing to the necessities of the case, the discipline connected with clinical Penance had varied much less than the penitential discipline which was applied to persons who were not sick. I grant that, even in the case of clinical Penance, some changes had in the course of ages taken place. For example the number of sick persons who would wish to receive Absolution must have increased very largely, after the revolution in discipline described in the preceding pages had taken place; and the readiness to impart Absolution for venial sins was a novelty. But I see no reason to doubt that from the very first century of our era presbyters were as a rule empowered to do all that was necessary for sick penitents; there was normally no reservation of the power of Absolution to the Bishop, when the sick were in question;...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ... before his sickness came on, or it might be the fact of his sickness, which was now prompting him to. ask to be admitted to Penance; but in either case he would, in view of his malady, be anxious to be absolved speedily, and so be allowed to participate in the Mysteries of the Altar. I have shown that Origen and S. Chrysostom understood the clause to refer to the discipline of Penance and the ministration of Absolution1, and I am not aware of any other interpretation having been given to it by any early Christian writer. No one before the time of Charles the Great suggests, so far as my knowledge goes, that S. James is alluding to anything but the remission which is imparted by the exercise of the power of the keys. But by the end of the eighth century, owing to the changes which had taken place in the administration of the discipline of Penance2, the conditional clause in the Jacobean passage would not produce by any means 1 See above, on pp. 42-7. a Owing to the necessities of the case, the discipline connected with clinical Penance had varied much less than the penitential discipline which was applied to persons who were not sick. I grant that, even in the case of clinical Penance, some changes had in the course of ages taken place. For example the number of sick persons who would wish to receive Absolution must have increased very largely, after the revolution in discipline described in the preceding pages had taken place; and the readiness to impart Absolution for venial sins was a novelty. But I see no reason to doubt that from the very first century of our era presbyters were as a rule empowered to do all that was necessary for sick penitents; there was normally no reservation of the power of Absolution to the Bishop, when the sick were in question;...

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 5mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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88

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978-1-235-30200-8

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9781235302008

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1-235-30200-8



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